1. KC is certainly not the issue, he has his opinions like everybody else but lets not turn this into total beat up
2. Towns, resorts, loss of infrastructure, businesses hit by cyclones, you name it's happened before and in most ways no different what occurred at Airlie so lets not over hype this
3. Emerald had 11.8mm on Tuesday & 48.2mm on Wednesday, nothing more than maybe a bit of very minor flash flooding in Emerald terms, would have been gone before leaving the 19th, maybe too much time spent in the 19th
4. So can we leave the hype to the reporters, we don't need any more rubbish like Marcia being a category 5, facts without the fiction please.
5 But at least some may be starting to realize Debbie in cyclone terms was not all that she was made out to be, sure the place got beat up, nothing different to previous beat ups, the people will respond, rebuild, those that can't handle it may leave, go to somewhere like Tasmania
6 Look at Mackay which has been impacted by over 70 recorded cyclones during its brief history including some of the worst on record and look at Mackay today, in comparative terms when Mackay was annihilated in 1918, Airlie should really be counting itself lucky, building codes and all the other excuses don't separate the end results